Roddy Doyle Quotes

Good ideas are often murdered by better ones.

Roddy Doyle

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: novelist
  • Nationality: irish
  • Birth: May 8, 1958

Topics

GoodIdeasBetterGood IdeasOften

I, Joan Crawford, I believe in the dollar. Everything I earn, I spend.

Joan Crawford

MoneyBelieveI BelieveEverything

When I'm on the court, I try to play with all my emotion and heart.

Jeremy Lin

HeartPlayTryEmotionCourt

If our culture is so often readily and easily appropriated, imagine what happens when we embrace our full blackness and know that our contributions are just as important to the shaping of the country and, more broadly, the world.

Angela Rye

CultureWorldCountryKnowImportant

The great people I've met always have time for the niceties.

Mercedes McCambridge

GreatTimePeopleGreat PeopleMet

Forgiving is not an easy thing to do.

Amanda Lindhout

EasyForgivingThingEasy Thing

I watch an awful lot of old Hollywood movies - I'll devour anything with Bette Davis or Joan Crawford. My absolute favourite is 'Sunset Boulevard' starring Gloria Swanson.

Amanda Donohoe

SunsetMoviesHollywoodOldAnything

When I was younger, I liked guys who had a good personality and decent looks.

Song Hye-kyo

GoodPersonalityLooksDecentWho

It's almost like you see too much, because when it happens for real, everything flies at you so fast, you never get a sense of the ice and where everyone is at that one moment.

Steve Yzerman

MomentIceYouFastToo MuchNever

The things that excite me are staying home and cooking.

Troye Sivan

HomeCookingMeThingsStaying

A lot of people are deeply dissatisfied by the diminishing control they have over their lives, because of the way our system of government is set up, to cater to the powerful, cater to the wealthy, cater to the corporations, and not to the individual American citizen.

Josh Fox

GovernmentPeopleControlAmerican

The Mekons were kind of like the background music of my life.

Jonathan Franzen

LifeMusicMy LifeKindBackground

For girls and women, talk is the glue that holds a relationship together - and the explosive that can blow it apart. That's why you can think you're having a perfectly amiable chat, then suddenly find yourself wounded by the shrapnel from an exploded conversation.

Deborah Tannen

WomenRelationshipTogetherYourself

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